While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, Easter is all about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Because we are sinners – we need God's forgiveness every. single. day. And because Jesus forgave us – we are called to forgive others. For ...

While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, Easter is all about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Because we are sinners – we need God’s forgiveness every. single. day. And because Jesus forgave us – we are called to forgive others.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14,15)

Oh how I wish I could delete certain memories from my mind. The command to forgive would be so much easier.

But I can’t.

The reality is, we have all been wounded by people in our lives and we can either replay those wounds over and over and let bitterness take root and grow in our hearts – or we can choose to forgive.

It is a choice.

An active, intentional choice.

If you are struggling to forgive others who have hurt you – you are not alone. I have wrestled with these verses and had to apply them over...

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In case you missed the first announcement, the schedule for the Good Morning Girls in 2018 is a bit different than previous years. Instead of doing 7-9 Bible Studies within a years time frame, there will be four: One in the winter (Romans is complete), one this Spring (2 Samuel), one in the summer (to be announced) and one this fall (I am currently writing an in-depth Bible study similar to the Ecclesiastes Bible Study for this fall).

During the breaks, I’ll be here blogging but I won’t be leading a formal Bible Study. I’ll be working my way through the Habit Trackers and sharing other lessons that God is teaching me.

So it’s almost time for our spring Bible Study to begin! Don’t miss this!

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Last Friday, a crew came into my home (my brother-in-law and some guys from my church) and they shattered my tiles and carried them out and this week they will be putting in new wood floors. So it’s been a long weekend in a dusty house. (I’m writing this on Sunday evening.)

When Snowball was a puppy, she would dig at the grout of our tiles. As a result, she loosened a bunch of my tiles and once the tiles were loose, over time they began to crack. So I had a bunch of cracked tiles, all over my kitchen floor.

And so it was time. Time to break down the old and build the new.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 says:

3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up;4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;...

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The sun is setting later and making the days longer and spring is just around the corner. As the birds begin to chirp and the flowers begin to bloom – change is happening outside our windows. And now it’s time for a change inside too!

If you always think, “someday I’ll begin.”

Then today is your someday!

And if you are like me and you regularly think – “next month I’ll begin” or “next Monday I’ll begin” – a new month is here! Here’s our chance. Who says you can’t start something on a Thursday?

The important part is to get started. Your future self will thank you!

Last year, I went through a season of pursuing rest for my soul but during that season I had just one problem…my to-do list did not stop. While I took a break from blogging, spent extra time at the feet of Jesus and said “no” to commitments that would lead me away from rest, I still had the typical to-do lists.

There was meal planning, grocery shopping, washing and folding laundry, trash cans that continued to overflow and the list goes on. Then I had Bible reading goals, prayer lists, gratitude lists, I started a daily skincare routine, tried to start watching what I eat, tried to sleep more and and on and on it went.

During my time of rest, I discovered the world of habit trackers!

Yes – there is a world of these out there if you are not familiar with them!

From college girls to home school moms to working moms – there seems to be a vast array of women using these to reach their goals. Each woman’s Habit Trackers look a little different,...